Brick Underground

The city is increasingly taking a proactive role to ensure the safety of residents in residential buildings by tightening the safety requirements, increasing fines for non-compliance, and establishing new rules for buildings. Boards should be setting aside funds, not only for the inspections, but also for repairs and efficiency upgrades.

As always, the Brick Underground podcast explores your housing issues so you can better navigate the market, find a deal, make sense of the legal jargon, and stay one step ahead of the competition whether you’re renting or buying.

An analysis by PropertyShark ranked NYC’s suburbs based on the increase in home sales in 2020 compared to 2019. They found that buyers preferred larger, detached homes further from the city and that coastal suburbs in NJ and CT were the most desirable

You can successfully challenge a co-op board that won’t allow an estate administrator or executor to stay in the co-op apartment while the estate is wound down. In fact, every co-op proprietary lease has a built-in right to allow an executor to do just that.

In this episode of the podcast, host Emily Myers is joined by Brick Underground’s managing editor, Jennifer White Karp, and Kobi Lahav, director of sales at Living New York, to talk about what the shocks and surprises buyers often experience when they set out to buy in NYC for the first time. 

In this episode of the podcast host Emily Myers talks with Compass broker, Bianca Colasuonno, about demand for single-family homes in Queens. Sellers should know that buyers have very little appetite for renovating. That means the condition of your place is more important than ever—and Colasuonno has low budget tips to help sellers get the highest bid.